The first table below looks at the demand for BREW skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BREW over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW)
Rank - 217 -
Contract jobs citing BREW 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.025% -
As % of the Application Development category - 0.099% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £369 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £300 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1810 2018 2793
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.49% 25.64% 28.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1434 1499 2176
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.50 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
BREW
London

BREW
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BREW across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London BREW Jobs Demand Trend

BREW
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BREW across the City of London region.

City of London BREW Daily Rate Trend

BREW
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing BREW also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited BREW.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) iPhone
2 3 (75.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (75.00%) Flash Lite
2 3 (75.00%) SQLite
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Mobile
2 3 (75.00%) Java ME
2 3 (75.00%) Maven
2 3 (75.00%) Eclipse
2 3 (75.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (75.00%) Ant
2 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) OOP
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) Flash
2 3 (75.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (50.00%) XHTML
3 2 (50.00%) WML
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Android
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (25.00%) Finance

BREW
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing BREW also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited BREW. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) Java ME
1 3 (75.00%) Flash
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) XHTML
2 2 (50.00%) WML
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) J2ME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git (software)
1 3 (75.00%) Maven
1 3 (75.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (75.00%) Ant
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) iPhone
2 3 (75.00%) Flash Lite
2 3 (75.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) OOP
1 3 (75.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Symbian